Campus & Community

The university has completed the first year of With You: The WashU Campaign, with the community stepping up to help advance research, learning opportunities and patient care.

Andrew K. Groves, a renowned developmental biologist known for his research into inner ear development and hearing loss with a focus on the potential for hearing restoration, has been named the inaugural Stuart A. Kornfeld Distinguished Professor of Medical Sciences at WashU Medicine.

The annual awards recognize extraordinary contributions to WashU Medicine and celebrate leaders whose achievements embody the institution’s interconnected missions of patient care, education and research.

Ten teachers from across the St. Louis region will partner with WashU faculty for the 2026 Summer Teacher Researcher Program. Administered by the university’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP), the program provides teachers an opportunity to participate in faculty research and develop lessons for their classrooms.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

Matthew R. Rosengart, MD, a leading expert on sepsis and circadian rhythms whose research has improved care and outcomes for vulnerable patients, has been installed as the inaugural Theodore and Bertha Bryan Professor of Environmental Medicine in the WashU Medicine Mary Culver Department of Surgery.

At the WashU Office of Technology Management’s annual Celebration of Inventors, WashU Medicine researchers Graham Colditz and Shu (Joy) Jiang were honored for developing and commercializing a technology to predict breast cancer risk.

Katherine Kirchdorfer, an undergraduate student in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been selected as a 2026-27 Lafayette Fellow by Villa Albertine, The French Institute for Culture and Education.

Live Near Your Work, WashU’s innovative forgivable home loan program, is expanding its footprint of eligible neighborhoods to include downtown and portions of south St. Louis, north St. Louis and north St. Louis County. 

The WashU Brown School’s Social System Design Lab has received a $75,000 Spencer Foundation grant to study pathways from high school to careers in St. Louis.